{"id":18874,"date":"2026-02-11T20:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-says-doj-is-investigating-possible-epstein-conspirators\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:16:40","slug":"bondi-says-doj-is-investigating-possible-epstein-conspirators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-says-doj-is-investigating-possible-epstein-conspirators\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi says DOJ is investigating possible Epstein conspirators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday her department is actively probing individuals who might have conspired with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have pending investigations in our office,&#8221; she said during her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, when asked by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) if people would be indicted for ties to Epstein&#8217;s crimes.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear if Bondi was referring to work by the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in the Southern District of New York, where Bondi has directed U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to oversee investigations into connections between Epstein and prominent Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>But members of both parties are clamoring for justice for Epstein&#8217;s victims, with many lawmakers counting on the release of the DOJ&#8217;s Epstein files to reveal more information about who should be implicated in wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have repeatedly suggested former President Bill Clinton should be further scrutinized, pointing to his long-standing relationship with Epstein as captured in photos Bondi&#8217;s agency made public in compliance with the law Congress passed last fall. Democrats, meanwhile, continue to scrutinize Trump&#8217;s relationship with the disgraced financier. <\/p>\n<p>Neither man has been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein&#8217;s crimes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday her department is actively probing individuals who might have conspired with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. \u201cWe have pending investigations in our office,&#8221; she said during her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, when asked by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) if people would be indicted for ties to Epstein&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}